A ball python eats a white rat. Ball pythons are the smallest python species in Africa. Tubagus Aditya Irawa/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images ...

The incredible success of invasive pythons in the Everglades has proven to be a boon to cotton rats. New research indicated that if the snakes are present, foxes, bobcat and other furry predators a… ...

One is that because cotton rats are always present, there’s always going to be something for the pythons to eat — they won’t eat themselves out of a prey base.

Mumbai-based naturalists have documented a rare instance of ophiophagy (snake-eating behaviour) at Maharashtra Nature Park, where a rat snake was observed consuming a juvenile Indian rock python ...

Reticulated and Burmese pythons typically feed on smaller mammals like rats and mice but will also eat poultry and other birds if they can get them.